Video: Obama spokesman won’t deny he knew McCain’s injuries limited his computer use
posted at 1:41 pm on September 15, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Via the Standard, Hemmer sinks his teeth in and won’t let go. Sounds like what happened is they did their research, stumbled across the Globe piece from 2000 claiming McCain couldn’t use a keyboard because of his wounds, then stumbled across the NYT interview from this summer where he talks about using a computer and learning to go online and assumed the problem must have been resolved through some sort of technological advance in the eight-year interim.
Clearly a risk worth taking for a line of attack this dorktastic.
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Second look at pain.
Entelechy on September 15, 2008 at 2:29 PM
He was Director of the Senate Navy Liason office and Reached rank of Captain in Navy.
What did Obama do again? Let’s see, he was a community organizer, a law student (and law review editor), an associate at a law firm, a professor of Constitutional law, a state senator (brief) and U.S. Senator (brief) – - Executive material, no?
Rick on September 15, 2008 at 2:29 PM
I listened to McCain for a bit this morning in fl. he offered to townhall Obama again and said he would even pay for the plane to meet,wouldn’t fly it but would pay for it the crowd went nuts.
tee866 on September 15, 2008 at 2:29 PM
“Well Obama is winning the DailyKos poll
Shocker!
highhopes on September 15, 2008 at 1:53 PM”
The funny thing is the results indicate 4% of blacks are for McCain, 94% are for Obama and apparently, only 2% haven’t decided if they want to vote their race or not.
Star20 on September 15, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Rule #1358 (Liberal Political Tactics Handbook)
When caught with pants down, put mouth on automatic overdrive jabberwocky until questioner moves on.
whitetop on September 15, 2008 at 2:30 PM
-fixed it for ya Ralphie.
NightmareOnKStreet on September 15, 2008 at 2:31 PM
I’m sure this mope’s next assignment will be explaining Obama’s authority to conduct (troop withdrawal) negotiations with a foreign power.
alwyr on September 15, 2008 at 2:32 PM
“Let be clearer for you, Montana.
John McCain’s whining about his minor injuries are an insult to every soldier who was really wounded and the families of those soldiers who were killed in Vietnam.
Will the Right ever get tired of playing the victim card?
I think not…
alphie on September 15, 2008 at 2:08 PM”
alphie,
I’m a Vietnam veteran. You are an idiot!
Star20 on September 15, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Thank you.
So is my dad. He was shot in the knee when the VC broke into his compound. They were in hand-to-hand combat. He still has pain going up and down stairs and climbing a ladder.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 15, 2008 at 2:38 PM
So are you telling us that playing a victim is a realm of the left only? Because I sure read a lot of victim stance from your side this election.
Noelie on September 15, 2008 at 2:38 PM
Yes, I recall the wonderful tech bubble bursting and the tech stocks tumbling; our President attacking Iraq for failing to comply with weapons inspectors in Operation Desert Fox (while staining dresses in the Oval office); thinking AQ was really not a threat; and yes, the Balkans – - such a peaceful and rich time indeed.
Rick on September 15, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Heck yeah.
Jim Treacher on September 15, 2008 at 2:39 PM
+1
baldilocks on September 15, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Edward R. Murrow helped bring an end to McCarthyism with the famous line, “Senator…Have you no shame?” After reading through these posts and seeing comments from an idiot who cannot imagine in his worst nightmare what physical and psychological pain John McCain went through, still hurls insults towards this decorated war veteran. Too bad Murrow is not with us anymore to say, “Alphie…Have you no shame?”
sdd on September 15, 2008 at 2:41 PM
I take it that this is Rhetorical?
Noelie on September 15, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Stop swift-boating Obama!/sarcasm off
shick on September 15, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Please Do Not Feed the Trolls
-Zookeeper
ex-Democrat on September 15, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Wow, the Obamunist’s mouthpiece is a scumbag.
NTWR on September 15, 2008 at 2:43 PM
John McCain’s whining about his minor injuries are an insult to every soldier who was really wounded and the families of those soldiers who were killed in Vietnam.
alphie on September 15, 2008 at 2:08 PM”
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As retired navy and a war vet I started to respond to this garbage. Then I decided that it just wasn’t worth the effort to try to reason with an idiot.
duff65 on September 15, 2008 at 2:45 PM
You see, it’s part of their psyche. They can’t argue His Holiness’ policies so they degenerate into personal attacks, smears and slanders. Happens every 4 years.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM
I find it quite amusing that Lindsay is now gay. Wasn’t she fooling around with various guys in rehab just six months ago?? Talk about desperate publicity ploy.
Illinidiva on September 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM
Heck yeah.
Jim Treacher on sept 15,2008 at 2:39PM.
Jim Treacher:Caught that on Atlas shrugs,and Ace’s site!
I almost believe that some of McCains pictures
have been touched up,to make his skin look,
a little paler!!
Maybe its just my perception!!:)
canopfor on September 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM
I was told he was with us…
Rick on September 15, 2008 at 2:47 PM
The early years for Clinton were quite good. Thanks to the Reagan/Bush years.
Unfortunately it did not take Bill long to run the economy into the ground.
MarkTheGreat on September 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM
I had the same reaction, except that I said to myself “looks like a steely guy from the Ayn Rand heroes inventory”.
Entelechy on September 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM
ATTENTION NEWBIES!!!
alphie is one of several trolls.
S.T.O.P. F.E.E.D.I.N.G. T.H.E. T.R.O.L.L.S.
THAT’S THE ONLY SURE WAY TO “KILL THEM”
NightmareOnKStreet on September 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM
Are you refering to alphie?
MarkTheGreat on September 15, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Obama’s spokesman is going to criticize McCain for saying the fundamentals of the economy are strong. I guess the only thing acceptable for Obama is if McCain gets up there and causes a panic by telling everybody that the sky is falling.
McCain will not cause a financial panic for political gain.
McCain would rather lose and election than have the US lose a war.
Barack Obama has no such reluctance. He will cause a financial panic for short term political gain. He will gladly have tens of thousands of people lose everything they own if it gets him half a point in the public opinion polls. And we already know that Barack Obama was only too happy to hand a victory to the despicable Al Qaeda in order to score cheap points off the Bush Administration.
This is the difference between McCain and Obama. McCain is in this thing to serve his country, even at his own expense. Barack Obama is in this thing for his own advancement, and doesn’t give a damn what happens to the country.
Actually, if you listen to his friends, hurting this country is an end in itself.
gridlock2 on September 15, 2008 at 2:49 PM
It’s not your perception. It’s their reality. That’s why they’ll lose. Older people vote in droves, and they don’t like to be belittled, by the very hypocrites who claim to be for them.
Entelechy on September 15, 2008 at 2:51 PM
I never asked that anyone be banned. But I’ll ask for McCain’s sake, and for the sake of those in similar situations. Those of us who haven’t fought to defend the country owe those that did support here at home. Alphie is entitled to her opinion, but not only is she factually incorrect, but she infects the body politic with a kind of poison in this case that is not only offensive, but damaging.
I’m not a great fan of McCain the Presidential candidate, but he is a good American and shouldn’t have his bravery and honor maligned here by one member of the large army of silly twits who inhabit the left. Furthermore, John McCain doesn’t whine. Come to think of it, I think I’ll vote for him twice now.
JiangxiDad on September 15, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Oh My eyes…my eyes!!!!
sdd on September 15, 2008 at 2:53 PM
Rush just played a clip of Barry saying pretty much the same thing as the dorktastic* Bill Burton from ABC this morning- and you know something? Obama is the MOST irritating speaker without his teleprompter, ah, um, uh. Makes me want to slap the words out of his mouth.
*someone else called him this, and I thought it very appropriate.
anniekc on September 15, 2008 at 2:56 PM
That would be one, an A-4, thanks to a an NVA SA-2 SAM. He was in his jet on the USS Forrestal when a Zuni rocket launched accidentally launched from another aircraft on the flight deck and hit a fully fueled and bomb ladened jet starting the whole thing.
Your point being in previous posts that McCain is lazy and that he uses his war wounds as an excuse and that this is an insult to all veterans. First, it is the truth that it is painful for him to type (heck, it’s painful for me to type with my fat fingers on my Mac laptop, I cannot begin to image his pain). Second, if you don’t need to do it why do it if it is painful (by the way, it is used to be called a “typing pool”). Third, he stated this back in the early 1980’s, not as an excuse but as the truth. Fourth, Obama’s camp was the one that has brought it up, for the wrong reasons – see my post above – and McCain’s camp as far as I know is keeping silent on it; the bloggers are the ones correctly crucifying this false messiah over it. Fifth, if the wounded vets are so insulted, why are we not hearing them? Sixth, please think before you speak.
Bubba Redneck on September 15, 2008 at 2:56 PM
After this they are going to take out ads attacking Charles Krauthammer for not being able to ride a bike.
I mean…even little kids can ride a bike. He can’t ride a bike, is he dumber than a little kid?
29Victor on September 15, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Agreed, I’m starting to think there’s something to their argument about not requiring IDs for voting – - think about how many more times you could vote. Also, we need to get the dead people vote before the Dems do. We have a lot of work ahead of us…
Rick on September 15, 2008 at 2:57 PM
You guys’ll have to cut ‘Alphie’ a little slack here. He’s from Massachusetts, so that means he’s genetically programmed to mindlessly regurgitate the demo “talking points du jour.” He can’t help himself – which might even make him a “victim”.
alwyr on September 15, 2008 at 3:00 PM
The First Amendment (God bless our Founding Fathers!) gives us all the right to show the world how smart, or stupid, we are. The more Alphie talks, the more she shows the latter. Besides, it is good to know how one’s enemies “think”.
I bet if go to Chicago and say you’d like to vote for Obama, they’ll hand you as many ballots as you want!!!
Bubba Redneck on September 15, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Rick on September 15, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Uh Rick, dead people only vote Democrat don’t ya know?
JAM on September 15, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Its not your perception….
Entelechy on Sept 15,2008 at 2:51PM.
Entelechy: Long time,to hear from you!:)
It just seems,lately,that when cruising the
news sites,it looks as if their deliberately
trying to make McCain’s skin kinda whiter,
like as if to make McCain look sickly!!
Just like, how Clintons hair, slowly turned
white over a short period of time!:):):)
canopfor on September 15, 2008 at 3:05 PM
We’re not feeding a troll. We’re feeding upon him.
Jim Treacher on September 15, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Jim:
Feeding off a poisoned carcass may not be good for our own health.
texette on September 15, 2008 at 3:16 PM
I haven’t seen what you are talking about, but McCain often does look really really white. He uses sunscreen and wears hats because of his cancer and he is often the whitest man alive.
Maybe his campaign decided the summer was over and haven’t been using make-up or something. This is a long term problem and the Media probably isn’t doing this.
petunia on September 15, 2008 at 3:22 PM
So the drunk angry lesbian washed up child star demographic is in the Obama tank..
DaveC on September 15, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Unit? AO? What does 33 represent?
Linh_My on September 15, 2008 at 3:40 PM
You should know better, don’t feed the trolls…it is a waste of time.
right2bright on September 15, 2008 at 3:40 PM
When blacks go to vote, someone should read the ballot aloud for them. It says “which guy will be the better president?”. It does not say “which guy looks most like you?”.
stonemeister on September 15, 2008 at 3:42 PM
tap dancing Obama spokesman tool , once again the One steps in it and cant scrap it off his own shoes in time. This idiot is going to lose big time .
Mojack420 on September 15, 2008 at 3:42 PM
I wish alphie would change out of his diapers and come up out of his mommy’s basement. Then he could see the real world. And we could kick the crap out of him as he deserves.
bill30097 on September 15, 2008 at 3:46 PM
I think “alphie” and its ilk cannot even conceptualize the heroism of John McCain and why it matters in evaluating the character of he who would occupy the oval office.
John McCain is a man who has arguably already MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE for his country, but he was one of the few who lived to tell about it. As a POW in the Hanoi Hilton, given the daily onslaught of starvation, beatings, and enduring the most sadistic inhuman tortures anyone could imagine, one could easily presume his own imminent death and therefore go through the mental and spiritual preparations necessary for death, and come to grips with it.
Despite the mental and physical torture endured daily for over 5 years, McCain never succumbed to his captors – he bravely defied them and fought back at them however he could, all while knowing the blade could fall on his neck at any moment.
That, my friends – is COURAGE. It is a special level of courage and character that I WANT IN MY PRESIDENT.
Miserable, self-absorbed little twits like Alphie (liberals) can’t even conceptualize courage like this, and are thus not fit to lick the boots of a man like McCain.
Fishoutofwater on September 15, 2008 at 3:46 PM
Bit stringy, true. You just have to roast the heck out of it and take it with a grain of salt.
Jim Treacher on September 15, 2008 at 3:49 PM
McCain’s wounds resulted from his 23rd bombing run in which his continuing mission was to blow up as many Communists and their stuff as possible. Therefor, the left thinks they can justifiably make light of them.
Akzed on September 15, 2008 at 3:56 PM
My mother who is 78 and her neighbor, also 78 are both die hard democrats. They are both voting for McCain.
jewells45 on September 15, 2008 at 3:57 PM
what an f’ing tool that spokes-hole is….
McCain, still fighting the communists all these years later.
jcrue on September 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM
“Dorktastic” That word alone made the post worth reading.
Big John on September 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Bill Ayres… tied to a chair… sleep deprived and hungry… looks up and sees…
Akzed on September 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM
http://jimtreacher.com/archives/001589.html
and sees…
Dang!
Akzed on September 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM
I think (r)alphie may have received the ban-hammer from Allah. Its 2:19 comment was scrubbed, and we haven’t heard from it since.
Problem solved?
common sensineer on September 15, 2008 at 4:06 PM
We need more of that around here, the troll thing has become quite tiresome.
Dorvillian on September 15, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Not to mention that McCain held an actual military command, which is most definitely executive experience.
PJ Emeritus on September 15, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Wow! You really want to go down this road? It wasn’t McCain claiming victim status Alphievictim. That’s what liberals like yourself do. It was Obama that brought it up so McCain doesn’t need to realize anything. Take your pathetic form of liberal compassion and tolerance somewhere else you horrible troll.
Sultry Beauty on September 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Nobama’s stooges have no scruples. Must be a qualification when filling out an ap to work for him.
oakpack on September 15, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Can someone tell me how Obama’s campaign bringing up war injuries is the same thing as McCain whining about his injuries? First, McCain doesn’t whine, and second, he doesn’t discuss his injuries.
The Left is pathetic, I can’t wait until McCain gets elected so I can be a horribly poor winner and ram this down the throat of every whiny Lib I can find.
cannonball on September 15, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Just a note for Hemmer, the it wasn’t the Vietcong that beat McCain, it was the North Vietnamese.
David
LifeTrek on September 15, 2008 at 5:02 PM
To all the new posters, That’s 6 posts in response to a troll on this one page so far. For every one of alphie-the-idiots posts, there are at least this many “responses“. DO THE MATH. By engaging a troll in any way YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. These threads, though worthwhile, are being overrun by this nonsense which is making it too cumbersome to wade through. To those I’ve mentioned above, I’ve read your other stuff and you have some worthwhile points but no one is going to sift through the crap to find them. Until someone (Allah, Ed, are you listening?) gets rid of these snarks WHO ARE MAKING HotAir UNREADABLE please control your urge to ADD to the problem.
NightmareOnKStreet on September 15, 2008 at 5:12 PM
This Bill Burton cat is one of the sleaziest and lamest Demoncat partisan talking heads out there. Most of them I can tolerate but this guy is nothing but a talking point regurgitator. Gak.
RobertCSampson on September 15, 2008 at 5:18 PM
After viewing clips like those, there’s a part of me that would like us to send Burton and his ilk over to the lot that killed Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg, so Hemmer could then ask the Obama campaign, Where is your flunky Burton, and why can’t He answer any of my questions?
Teddy on September 15, 2008 at 5:23 PM
And you’re, what, the solution? Don’t worry about it.
Jim Treacher on September 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM
BUBBA REDNECK: The First Amendment prohibits any governmental proscription of free speech. That amendment does not apply to HotAir, as HotAir is not a governmental body. HotAir can regulate what happens here, the government cannot.
ALPHIE does not add anything that helps others understand the left’s point of view. He ridicules a man, whatever his politics may be, who served and sacrificed for his country — heroically.
Since Alphie has only belittled a great man, which adds nothing to an “understanding of the issues” then I second JiangxiDad.
Some contributors from the left add viewpoints here. They are welcomed and critiqued. Alphie just ridicules a great man. That wastes all of our time here.
65droptop on September 15, 2008 at 6:10 PM
65droptop on September 15, 2008 at 6:10 PM
So says the decider?
Cindy Munford on September 15, 2008 at 7:13 PM
“Seconding” an opinion is not deciding anything. It is demonstrating another poster’s support for a call to ban a poster who posts ridicule, not honest discourse.
I trust you can tell the difference.
65droptop on September 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM
haha, wasted by Hemmer.
RightWinged on September 15, 2008 at 9:46 PM
1-800-ACORN.
eucher on September 15, 2008 at 10:12 PM
I understand that HotAir can do what it wishes being a private entity. Sometimes it is just plain fun to verbally b!*#h slap an idiot like Alphie!
Bubba Redneck on September 15, 2008 at 11:16 PM
eucher on September 15, 2008 at 10:12 PM
That would explain the push in some states to give felons their voting privliges back an all those Democratic booths outside of prisons…..
Yo you! The one just paroled…..care to vote?
Bubba Redneck on September 15, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Hateful leftist scumbag.
Borislav on September 16, 2008 at 9:01 AM
Mr. Burton represents more than Obombem. He represents an empty suit.
Air Heads like Mr. Burton cannot ever answer a simple question because they have no intention of even answering it and do not know the answer anyway . They just want to babel on and on and do not care about listening to anyone except themselves.
Because they are so self engrossed with themselves, they forget communications are a two way process.
When I was younger, I found you could make Chatty Cathy shut up by cutting the string in her back. Let’s find Mr. Burton’s string.
MSGTAS on September 16, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Burton is simply a nasty person. He knows the truth, but is so despicable and desperate to help his candidate that he will deliberately lie and mislead to hurt a person who continually bends over backwards to not engage in race-based or similar low and unseemly attacks.
I just hope the rest of the country will see exactly who the Democrats and far left really are.
Wildcatter1980 on September 16, 2008 at 10:56 AM
This is incredibly funny, given that the left invented the “victim card,” and that they play it (from the bottom of the deck) every chance they get.
Without execution of the “victim” card over the decades, the left would have no constituencies to speak of.
seanrobins on September 16, 2008 at 10:14 PM
There’s people without arms that use the computer rather well, hell I saw a guy on TV without any arms playing table poker, so his injuries are no excuse especially considering his job. Why not just say the guy is old and rich and has other people to learn those new technologies? Didn’t he say that he “watches the internet”? Frankly if McCain is going to be regulating the stuff, cripple or not, he should have a staffer show him the ropes. I don’t care if he has no arms or legs and a bad eye, the guy is a Senator and should at least pretend to know this stuff.
LevStrauss on September 17, 2008 at 10:05 AM
McCain is RedHat Enterprise Linux.
Obama is Windows ME!!
landlines on September 17, 2008 at 7:51 PM
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